UW-Madison scientists have developed a new technique for identifying and analyzing a single molecule.
The new development, published in the May edition of the journal Nature, is the most sensitive way of identifying single molecules yet. With a variety of applications in a wide variety of scientific fields, it offers a future of “new microscopic perspective of unprecedented detail.”
The University said the sensors detect nitrate in soil types that are common in Wisconsin, allowing farmers to make better informed soil nutrient management decisions and reap economic benefits. The sensors can also be used as an agricultural tool to monitor nitrate leaching.
The Wisconsin Union team is putting special colors of terrace chairs on display that aren’t usually seen at the terrace, including purple and blue. New this year, pink, brown and white have been added to the collection.
Born Velvalea Hortense Rodgers in Milwaukee in 1923, the influential public figure was ahead of her time.
She received a scholarship to attend Howard University, in Washington D.C., where she obtained her bachelor’s degree. Phillips continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School and was the first African-American woman to graduate there. She and her husband then opened a Milwaukee law firm.
Mariel Barnes, a founding faculty member of UW–Madison’s Sexual Violence Research Initiative, joined host Allen Ruff to talk about the Supreme Court case as well as statistics of domestic violence in Wisconsin.
Rebecca Myerson, a co-author of the study and assistant professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin, said the results surprised her because she had assumed that if people didn’t have access to abortion, that might incentivize them to be more diligent about preventing pregnancy via contraception.
Campers walked in for their morning practice Wednesday to find the Badger swimmer and two-time Olympian in the pool.
Former University of Wisconsin standout women’s soccer player Rose Lavelle will try to improve on her last finish with the U.S. Women’s National Team at the Olympics.
If donors have a set sum they’re willing to give to the Wisconsin athletic department, which category should it go to: the facility that has been eyed for years or the NIL funding that might make the difference in putting together a winning roster?
Katie Ledecky and Phoebe Bacon have been “buddies’’ for decades. Or since Ledecky was in grade school and Bacon was in kindergarten and they were part of a “buddy’’ system.
List includes multiple former UW-Madison student athletes.
The returning American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Americans are two of 14 college players who will represent the United States at the NORCECA Women’s Final Six Pan American Cup next week in the Dominican Republic.
As University of Wisconsin at Madison political scientist Barry Burden noted on Thursday, debate viewership has been trending up since the 1990s, though that may be in part because of more investment in partisan identities. That is, people may tune in not to learn more about the candidates but, instead, to root on their team’s representative.
“Everybody expected a local contamination issue,” said David Gay, coordinator of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the new study. “But I think what most people don’t understand about this fire is how big it was and how wide-ranging the implications are.”
“It was a painful experience to sit through. Neither candidate inspires our country,” Anders said. The Madison resident soon to start law school at the University of Wisconsin said the debate left him with concerns about Biden’s cognitive abilities but that he also questions Trump’s mental abilities.
He said it’s one of the main reasons he sought to call Shorewood home in 1987 after obtaining a master’s degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moving to Milwaukee County in 1975.
